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' CORINNE YOUNG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1 \To. 235,112, datedDecember 7, 1880.

Application filed June 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OORINNE YOUNG, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the followingis a specification.

The said improvements relate to corsets, waists, and braces that arepartly made of elastic material.

. They consist in the combination of a row of elastic material theentire length of the corset or waist, and in combination therewith ofthe application of one or more elastic bands to the back of the corsetor waist between the points of the shoulder-blades, and of theapplication of a similar band to the points of the hips, which arefitted with elastic gores that are made for their reception.

The corsets that have been hitherto made of unyielding material at thewaist compress the diaphragm, the lungs, and other vital organs, andinterfere with their proper and healthy action, the movement of thediaphragm is restricted, and the lower portions of the lungs are notemployed in respiration, and the health and form of the wearer arefurther disturbed and distorted by the displacement downward of theabdominal viscera.

In the corset or waist made according to my said improvement, with theelastic material extending the whole length of the front, the diaphragmis left free for perfect inspiration, the entire lung capacity is usedin breathing, and the vital organs of the abdomen are retained in theirnatural positions. The purpose efiected by the elastic bands at theshoulders is not to draw them forcibly backward, as is ordinarilyattempted, but by a moderate tension across the blades of the shouldersto counteract the tension of the elastic bands in front and to occasiona constant tendency to the expansion of the chest. In a similar mannerthe tension of the braces at the hips tends to the holding of them backto the lines vertical with the shoulders, which is their naturalposition, as well as the most easy and graceful.

To enable others skilled in the arts to which it appertains to make anduse my invention,

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I will proceed to describe its construction and operation with referenceto the drawings.

Figure 1 is a front View of a complete corset extending over the abdomenand made according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a back view of thesame.

The corset is made without the steel frames or heavy bones, that usuallypress with their ends injuriously upon the wearer, and there are merelylight bones or flexible steels placed at the edges of the front and backto hold them in line and to facilitate their adj ustment or removal. Itis stiffened and stayed where required by the interlaid and stitchedcords indicated 011 the drawings.

In the front of the corset shown in Fig. l the elastic hands a arefastened on one side, and are secured to the other by means of buttons.The :bands, with open spaces between them, by affording ventilation, arepreferable to a continuous strip of elastic material that completelycloses the space.

In the back of the corset shown in Fig. 2, which is laced in the usualmanner to fit the form of the wearer, the elastic bands I) are socuredopposite the shoulder-blades, and are furnished with buckles by whichthey may be adjusted.

The gores c, that are preferably made of elastic material, fit over thepoints of the hips and are drawn back by the elastic bands d, which alsohave buckles by which they may be adjusted.

The corset or waist may be fitted with the special appliances forsupporting the stockings, napkins, and other garments that may beneeded.

The shoulder-straps e are made wide at the back to retain their positionand to afford an efficient support, and they have elastic sections atthe points over the shoulders.

I am aware that elastic material has been 2. The combination of theelastic bands I) the corset behind the hips, all constructed and in theback of the corset and the elastic bands combined substantially asdescribed, and for a in the front, constructed and arranged to thepurpose set forth.

operate substantially in the manner and for OORINNE YOUNG. the purposedescribed. Witnesses:

3. A corset provided With the gores c and CHAS. E. LANSING, the bands d,secured at points in the back of WM. KEMBLE HALL.

